Hobbes against hate speech.
This article argues that Thomas Hobbes' analysis of insult or 'contumely' prefigures recent developments in moral and political philosophy in striking ways. Specifically, Hobbes's concerns about the dignitary harms in hate speech went well beyond 'fighting words' to the essential role played by expr...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 247 - 265 |
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Mar2024
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